Steering device for motor-vehicles.



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P. PORSCHE & L. LOHNBR. STEBRmG DEVICE FOR MOTOR via-lows.

iPPLIG-gTIGE FILED JULY 3. 1302.

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r 5 .ence marked thereon, which form a partof this two steering-wheels is provided with a sepa- Y eesrAi/niuiete corn 1 UNITED STATES Patented March 16, 1904.

PATENT- OFFICE.

FERDlNA -YD PORFELHE AND LUl)\\'l(i LOHNER, OF VJEXXAJX, AUSTRIA- r i HUNGARY.

.sreenme DEVlCE FOR moroe-vzmotes.

SPECH'IGATIOiT forming part of Letters Patent No. 754,802, dated March 15, 1904. i i A Application Ezed July 8, i902- .erial No. 114,801. No model.)

oall rel-.mn it may concern:

Be it known that-we, Famnmso Ponscne, engineer, residingat Berggassc6,and LUDWIG I LOHXER, manufacturer, residing at lorzellangasse 2, Vienna lX,Austria-Hungnry, subjects of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in or Relating to Steering Devices for Motor Road-Vehicles; and we do hereby declare the tion of the invention, such as will enable others i skilled in the art to-which itappertains to make and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and to tigureaof referspecification.

In motor road-vehicles in which each of the rate motor ---for instance, with an electrometor-huband is therefore driven independently, there is the drawback that the driviu-g force acting on the surface of contact between the wheel and the ground is accompanied by a torsional moment with regard to the pivot about. which the wheel, together with its axle, turns. This torsional moment is especially of gr at disadvantage when one of the motors upon the car traveling at a high speed ceases {1* "vi. so thatonl'y one wheel isdriven. In thi ca iihviorsionul moment of-LlwmoLor which remains in :u-iiun land the lvn'h-mgv to turn th 'wl-w-l a out th piv tal uiuw-tion with 1hr main axle and to (h ivv the v hi l in quite a rhtlc-rrnl din-Minn than it had before, hon-by frequently accidents are mused.

According to th present invention the axle. is onfll'ctwi with tin: 'lircl-jmll'nal by a pivot, uhich is so arranged as to brine it in direct :lll|l('l|l(.ll 'illl the hearing: or roa l-contact point of the wheel. so that torsional moment of olf-pro1mllod wheels is thus ov rcome, compactness and (he prote 'tiun of the parts forming the pivot and otheradvantages being attained by making; the said journal hollow and ll'IClOiDg" the said pivot within it.

in the accompanyingdrawings the iI'H't'lli tion is shownasapplicd toelectricullvslriveu i ,vln-eis.

Figure 1 is asection on the line A 1-. of Fig.

I tin-1r pivotsv 2,\vhileFig.2isalor 'itudinalscction through 5 i the axle.

The \vheel-journ P 1, which may he made hollow, is connect to the main axle 2 by means of a pivot, the axle of which pa ses through the point of Contact betwe n the roadwheel & or its pneumatic tire 5 and the road.

In the constructional form shown the end of I the axlcfil is provided with an inclined hole 6, 10 following to be a full, clear, and exact-descrip- .turc, rotates. The current may be supplied by sliding brushes 16, which are protected against external influence by a cover 17.

The operation is as follows: Each journal carryinga wheel forms a two-armed lever, to the inner arm of which the steering device is connected between ribs 18 or the like, both wheels being imultaneously movable about.

ll onlvone \vlu-ol ho. driven, 30

; their will -rno torsional movement with res im-.1210 (inpivot, as (h -drivingform! acting on the wriphvr v f lhe wh t-I isrqual lozrro.

if the distance f lhr pin! from th middle plane of tho whrrl is i mono: :di\ lysmall and 5 the axis of the pivot ms-ir exactly through the road-contact pointof tlnpneumatic tire,

slight diii'erenrcs 'Silllriwl y the tire being more orless inflated will nul ailrvt the effectivcness of the described arrangement. 9

Having now particularly de cri ed and ascrrtained the nature of our invention and in what. manner the same is to be perfornud, we

declare that what we claim is l. The combination of the axle, the wheel, a ll(;lln\\ journal for the. wheel, thornd of tho axlcprojmziing into said journal. and a pivoial connection between the axle and journal Lav- I BEST AVAlLABLE COP:

ing its axial lineI-disposed acutely to the plane In testimony Lhatwe claim the foregoing we :0 1 of the wheel, substantially as described. have hereunto set our nands this Hit-h day of y K 2. The combination of the mile, the wheel; J unc, 1902.

\ i1 hollow journal for the wheel, {the end of the 5 axle projecting into said journal, alined cones screwed into said journal pnd forming a pivotal connection between the axle and the jourl \Vitnesses:

m1, and a bolt connecting said cones, substan- I ALVESTO S. HOGUFL tially as described- 1 Fsnoz REITLY.

Fmonz-mnPonscmz; LUDWlC- LOHNER. 

